Soap-beater.



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vsow BEATER.- i 'APPLICATION FILED MVAY 4. 191.5.

l, 175,446. l Patented Mar. 14,1916.

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application filed May 4, 1915. Serial No. 25,775.

' To all whom t may concern.' f

Be it `known that LJOHN HELsTnoM, a citizen of the United States, residing at New7 York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented `certain new and useful Improvements in Soap-Beaters, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to improvements in device for rapidly agitating an article, such as a cake ofsoap in the water in which dishes or like articles are to be Washed, and for like purposes, and has for one ofits objects to simplify and improve the construction and increase the eliiciencyvand utility of a device of this character'.

' Another object of the invention is to'provide 'a simply Aconstructed device in which the piecesof soap or other article may be disposed and rapidly agitated and' the re ceptaclerecha-rged with the soap.

..`With these and other'objects in vieri, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and described andl then specifically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved device; F ig. 2 isa side view partly in section; F ig. 3 is a. perspective view of the upper combined frame and shaft holding member. F ig. 4 is a` perspective view of the lower combined frame and shaft holding member.

The improved device comprises asupporting frame, preferably formed from a single piece of a rod or heavy Wire and bent into a handle 10 at one end and into hoop-like form 11 at the opposite end. Adjacent-to the handle portion 10, the rod members are disposed in parallel relation and in close proximity for a distance as represented at 12 and thence distended and directed for a dis tance in parallel relation but spaced apart as shown at 13 and' merging into the hooplike portion 11. The frame is thus constructedv from a single rod with the termin als united preferably at the loiver end of the hook-like portion 11, as indicated at 14, the joint being made by soldering, brazmg', electric Welding or the like. 0

At' the upper ends of the distended portions 13 of the frame a coupling member 15 is disposed, and a similar coupling member 16 is disposed intermediate the portions The coupling member 15 is irst constructed as shown in Fig. 3 with bearings near the ends for the members 13, and secured in place by bending the portions of the member 15 vevternally of the bearings around the members 13. The bearing member 15 is provided with a transverse aperture to re ceive a stud represented at l? which Acarriesfa relatively large gear 'wheel 18, the gear wheel having anpperating handle 19. T he bearing member 1G is substantially the same in form as the bearing member 15 as illustrated in Fig. i, except that it has a vertical aperture to receive a vertical shaft :7.0. rIlle member 15 is likewise provided with a step in its lovver side to receive the upper end of the shaft 20. The inner Walls of the bearings of the members 15-15 extend at right angles to the transverse plane of the member. so that the solid intermediate portions of the members 15-16 are presented to the portions -13 of thefan'ie, to effectually prevent inward movement, while the bent terminals' prevent outward movement. Mounted upon the shaft 2O is a. pinion 21 to engage the teeth of the gear 18, the pinion being rigidly connected to the shaft and serving likewise as a stop collar to4 preventdownward movement of the shaft. it its lower end, the shaft 20 is provided .vith a hoop-like portion somewhat smaller than the hoop-like portion 11 of the frame and rotative therethrough when the shaft is rotated by motion imparted to the gear 18 and its pinion Q1.

The members 15 -and 16 are immovably connectedto the portions 13 of the fra-me so that the pinion 21 coating With'the members 15-16 will retain the'sha-ft 2O from vertical movement relative-,to the framei While at the same time leaving the shaft free to rotate in the frame members. At one side, the member of the-shaft is provided ivith a semi-globular netavorlv ofnelatively small Wires which are rigidly 'coupled thereto and rotate with the shaft. The shaft 20 and the hoop-like portion '22 of the shaft are preferably bent from a single rod with v the terminal of the hooplike portion sol dered or otherwise secured to the body of the shaft, as represented at 2%. Mounted to swing upon the hoop-like portion '2;' of the shaft is a cage corresponding to the semiglobular portion and constructed ofay supporting frame indicated conventionally at 25 and conforming in outline substan tially to the portion 22 of the shaft. The

frame 25 is formed troni a single section of Wire bent into substantially hoop-like shape with eyes 26 at the terminals which engage .around the lower part of the frame portion into smaller and spaced loops`28-29 which engage, the sides of the shaft 20 at its junc` ture with thehoop-like portion The handle member 2T and the loops 28-29 engage the shaft 20l with sutlicieniI force to hold the cage-like member in position. The portion `25 of the cage is provided with semi-globular wire portions 30 corresponding to and opposing the semi-globular wire portions 23 ot' the shaft. The two `semiglobular wire portions 23-30 thus form a complete cage in .which the soap is disposed. v

By this simple construction, it will be obvious that an effectual device is produced whereby one or more pieces of soap deposited in the cage member may be rapidly rotated in the water and the dissolving of the soap completed in a much less time and more thoroughly and completely cominingled with the water, as the rapid rotation of the cage not only expc'dites the dissolving ot the soap but likewise mixes the dissolvedsoap thoroughly with the water.

The improved device 1s simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured of any suitable material and of anyl v frame sides, the inner: walljsyof saidv bearings extending at., right angles to the lungi-- tudinal plane of said supports and 'secured to` the frame sides by bending the oii'teiportions of the bearings over the saine, said supports having bearings adapted to receive driving members.

invention,

In a device of the class described, a supV- porting frame, a d rivi for rotation relative` ing a hoop-shaped .fte half ,cage "earried by said hoop-shaped rminal, halt' cage :trame formed 'of Single length. rot

rame and l'iav= wirebent intermediate 'its ends intoja loop with the sides reversely curved and having terminal eyes engaging around'the 'hoopshaped terminal, and a pl'uiality-:.;of'outwardly curving bars spaced apart fandconnected .atith'eir ends to the sides of the halt cage frame, said loop being adapted to trie:

tionally engagethe driving member. j

In testimony whereof I .ati' .niv signature presence of two wit v JOHN HELsTRoa Witnesses z CLARENCE E. BAKER, Gu'sTav 'Sfax-nuns. 

